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Stockholm incident: Car rams people on pedestrian street

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39531108

A vehicle has driven into people on a street in central Stockholm, said Swedish police.

A number of people are reported to be injured, they said.

The incident took place on Drottninggatan (Queen Street), one of the city's major pedestrian streets, just before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT).

Witnesses told local media they have seen people on the ground.

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3 Dead

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Sweden?

We don't know that it's an attack yet. It's obviously the most likely scenario, but it's too soon to know what's happened.

Reports of Gunfire right now.

https://mitti.se/nyheter/just-lastbil-folkmassa/

Gunfire not yet confirmed, only reported

Seems the truck rammed a department store.

Swedish police said a number of people were injured, and they are treating it as terrorism.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39531108

Security Service Säpo has confirmed at least two people killed. Sad, but hopefully it won't get much worse.

Säpo confirmed 3 dead at 15:50.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Removed as the rest was wiped.

Not even a month since the last one.

Fething hell. I hope all our Swedish Dakkanaughts are safe.

Gah. Can these Islamic nut jobs feth off already and die without harming anyone.

Sad to hear again another damned attack.

If its a certain acronym. I think those cruise missiles hit the wrong target.

Apparently the perpetrator stole the lorry he used on-site. The driver was unloading beer when the perpetrator simply jumped into the lorry and drove off. It's thus unlikely to have been planned ahead of time.

Swedish police have apprehended a suspect, who says he did it, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
It's thus unlikely to have been planned ahead of time.

I'm not so sure. He might not have staked out a specific target truck to steal, but this guy was clearly looking for any opportunity he could find to grab a heavy vehicle and kill people with it.

Is it common to leave your keys in the vehicle while you unload cargo?

 Breotan wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
It's thus unlikely to have been planned ahead of time.

I'm not so sure. He might not have staked out a specific target truck to steal, but this guy was clearly looking for any opportunity he could find to grab a heavy vehicle and kill people with it.

Is it common to leave your keys in the vehicle while you unload cargo?

Well insurance wise which is kinda a normal line.
If anything happens to car and you left it alone, and thr key is in/engine running its not covered as you did not take propper care to ensure security.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Apparently the perpetrator stole the lorry he used on-site. The driver was unloading beer when the perpetrator simply jumped into the lorry and drove off. It's thus unlikely to have been planned ahead of time.

Swedish police have apprehended a suspect, who says he did it, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.

Well, trucks (without turning them into self-propelled bombs) are all the rage nowadays with Islamic Fundie terrorists. It's simpler from a logistics standpoint just use the truck as a weapon of terror, as opposed to sneaking in enough explosives to make an old fashioned car bomb.


In any case, to all of our community members from Sweden, keep your powder dry, eyes peeled, and say safe.

Swedish media is reporting that the apprehended suspect is an Uzbeki citizen working in construction.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Swedish media is reporting that the apprehended suspect is an Uzbeki citizen working in construction.

Makes me wonder if he was a lone wolf, or if there are others in on this.

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a possibility but improbable as they tend to focus on central Asia, also have no real onus in attacking Sweden. I would assume at this point not so much terror, but a frustrated individual, using terrorist methods.

There's been a sort of chain of events where the Uzbek government have tried to kill an imam critic (as in, a critic of the Uzbeki government who is also an imam) living in exile in Sweden, failed miserably and gotten caught with their pants down. I have no idea if that has anything to do with this (and it probably doesn't, it sounds pretty far-fetched), but it's the only connection between Sweden and Uzbekistan I can think of straight away.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
There's been a sort of chain of events where the Uzbek government have tried to kill an imam critic (as in, a critic of the Uzbeki government who is also an imam) living in exile in Sweden, failed miserably and gotten caught with their pants down. I have no idea if that has anything to do with this (and it probably doesn't, it sounds pretty far-fetched), but it's the only connection between Sweden and Uzbekistan I can think of straight away.

I would still be more inclined to think that this guy is just a angry immigrant lashing out and not likely an terrorist (or even likely a terrorist sympathizer) who probably just snapped. People do snap from time to time and do vile, crazy stuff.

 thekingofkings wrote:


I would still be more inclined to think that this guy is just a angry immigrant lashing out and not likely an terrorist (or even likely a terrorist sympathizer) who probably just snapped.

The step between an angry immigrant and a terrorist is very very thin. Many of the killers of the recent terror attacks in europe became muslim and then radicalized only a few months before committing their murders.


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 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
There's been a sort of chain of events where the Uzbek government have tried to kill an imam critic (as in, a critic of the Uzbeki government who is also an imam) living in exile in Sweden, failed miserably and gotten caught with their pants down. I have no idea if that has anything to do with this (and it probably doesn't, it sounds pretty far-fetched), but it's the only connection between Sweden and Uzbekistan I can think of straight away.

there's no need of a connetion or a specific reason, islamic fundamentalists hate every western country

 Blackie wrote:

 thekingofkings wrote:


I would still be more inclined to think that this guy is just a angry immigrant lashing out and not likely an terrorist (or even likely a terrorist sympathizer) who probably just snapped.

The step between an angry immigrant and a terrorist is very very thin. Many of the killers of the recent terror attacks in europe became muslim and then radicalized only a few months before committing their murders.


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 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
There's been a sort of chain of events where the Uzbek government have tried to kill an imam critic (as in, a critic of the Uzbeki government who is also an imam) living in exile in Sweden, failed miserably and gotten caught with their pants down. I have no idea if that has anything to do with this (and it probably doesn't, it sounds pretty far-fetched), but it's the only connection between Sweden and Uzbekistan I can think of straight away.

there's no need of a connetion or a specific reason, islamic fundamentalists hate every western country

But you are an anti immigrant bigot and islamophobe for pointing that out.

@ thekingofkings

I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

 thekingofkings wrote:


But you are an anti immigrant bigot and islamophobe for pointing that out.

That's because you're assuming that all muslims and all immigrants are like that, do you actually know a muslim or an immigrant? If I criticize someone is because of his/her behaviour, not because of his/her religion or nationality. Ignoring the fact that many people among the minorities or with foreign origins hate our countries beacuse otherwise you'd be branded as a racist is actually typical of racist people.

letting criminals of foreign origins and radical muslims do what they're currently doing to destroy our way of living is the reason why attacks like this one are becoming "routine" and far rights groups are rising.

In italy this act of terror was in 8th-9th page in several main newspapers, they all talk about trump, which is insane.

I think King is being sarcastic.

Moving on, lets not make this attack seem like more than it is. While 4 killed is tragic, its not a massive death toll. Meanwhile a non Islamic terrorist killed 3 people with a sword in Sweden and an Eritrean Christian killed 2 in an Ikea. This focus on Muslims/immigrants turning into terrorists is completely out of scale to the actual problem. The percentage of migrants/Muslims that actually commit an attack is similar/smaller than the amount of regular murderers in each of those countries. Sure we have had tragically larger attacks with loss of life, but we can equally point to European terrorist and former terrorist organization killing a lot of people.

In the Netherlands for example we have had one radical Muslim kill a single person. Meanwhile we have had an ethnically Dutch person commit a mass shooting and another killing multiple people. Will there be an Islamic terrorist attack somewhere in the future? Most likely. Are we going to make a big deal out of it? I sure don't hope so. People dying is always tragic, but its not like they are committing these attacks on a grand scale. Everybody can commit these vehicle attacks, and it surely not just Islamic terrorists or migrants doing so.

 Disciple of Fate wrote:


Everybody can commit these vehicle attacks, and it surely not just Islamic terrorists or migrants doing so.

But apparently only islamic fanatists do it.

A terror attack that kills 1000 or even 0 is the same act, it's only a matter of how skilled (or lucky) are the attackers.

Continue to ignore the problem of letting these people burn europe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4393590/Police-officers-Stockholm-attacked-STONES.html

 Blackie wrote:

 Disciple of Fate wrote:


Everybody can commit these vehicle attacks, and it surely not just Islamic terrorists or migrants doing so.

But apparently only islamic fanatists do it.

Continue to ignore the problems of letting these people burn europe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4393590/Police-officers-Stockholm-attacked-STONES.html

Moving past the ridiculous hyperbole and lies. Here are a few by non Muslims/fanatics that killed multiple people
2017 Melbourne- Not a Muslim
2015 Graz- No religious or political motive
2010 Hebei- Not a Muslim
2009 Apeldoorn- No motive, Dutch guy just driving his car into a crowd watching a parade
2008 Akihabara- Not a Muslim

I could go on, but nothing more is needed to reveal your obvious lie. The whole style might have not even originated in the Muslim world because the first recorded use of this kind of truck attack was in Czechoslovakia if I remember correctly.

Edit: also if you quote me Dailymail as a reliable source why bother?

As indeed the suicide vest bomber stylie was popularised by Tamil separatists in Ceylon, not Islamic extremists.

Gosh, it's almost as if Muslims are human beings, not some kind of weird alien that cannot be understood and simply must be crushed like locusts or cockroaches or something.